(Antarctica) Weddell seal with satellite transmitter (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean (SO) represents ~10% of the world’s oceans but hosts about 50% of the world’s stocks of seals

Pay Since 2011, the Alfred Wegener Institute has functioned according to the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Federation (TVöD Bund), which

fossil greenhouse gases. This is the result of a study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, which has now been published in the journal Nature Geosciences .

between the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) , the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology . Over a ten-year period, existing restoration measures will

information and dynamically optimize its observation strategy. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) plays a central role in the project as the marine application partner and supports the validation of the

leo.amende@awi.de Sketch "OpenAWI" - Mel mit dem Stift (Foto: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We're a partner of the project TandemPower . Together, we are standing up for

Reviewer Award 2025 Peter Köhler auf der Kottastraverse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific reviews of manuscripts can also be rated with stars. Five stars earn you a prize, the IOP Trusted [...] University of Bremen 2022 Steven Franke (Photo: Steven Franke, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In 2022 Dr. Steven Franke was awarded the Student Prize of the Friends of the University of Bremen for his PhD [...] .” Link Descartes Prize 2008 EPICA Team (Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The research prize is awarded to teams of researchers who have “achieved outstanding scientific or technological

In 1999, the Alfred Wegener Institute launched an ambitious project: the HAUSGARTEN observatory in the Fram Strait between northeast Greenland and

is now funding a project to further develop this method at the Alfred Wegener Institute for the next 1.5 years, with 150,000 euros.